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Political Science & Sociology

Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh M.A., Ph.D.

Contact Details

Title

Lecturer>Bar/College Lecturer

Address

Dept. of Pol. Science & Soc.Tower 1, Arts/Science BuildingNui Galway

Telephone:

Ext. 3594

Email:

ei.yawlagiun@hgiatrahcodo.llain

Biography:

I started out as a historian, spending a year in Derry in 1987 doing
research for an MA in history on Derry 'before the Troubles' under the
supervision of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh in Galway. The thesis looked at the
origins of the civil rights movement and the conflict in the 1950s and
60s.
After spending a year in Berlin I started a PhD in politics at
Queen's University Belfast with Paul Bew in 1990, looking at the
escalation of conflict in the early 1970s. The thesis was published as
the book 'From Civil rights to Armalites'. After a number of years when I
was concerned primarily with the online world (establishing the
University of Ulster's 'Conflict Data Service' and writing two textbooks
on Internet research) I have returned in the past few years to research
on conflict. My principal current interests are in conflict and
territoriality, conflict and new technologies and attempts to moderate
or resolve conflict. I am a founding convener of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence and co-convener of the Political Studies Association
of Ireland Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict. I have organised
several conferences, workshops and panels on the theme of peace and conflict in recent years, in Galway, Dublin, London and Rekjavik. Full details of these events are available on my blog at niallodoc.wordpress.ie. At NUI Galway I am cluster leader for the Conflict, Rights and Security cluster in the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence (CSNOV).

Books

O'Dochartaigh, N. (1997) From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles, 1st edn. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]

O Dochartaigh, N. (2002) The Internet Research handbook: a practical guide for students and researchers in the social sciences. : Sage London; Thousand Oaks; Delhi. [Details]

O'Dochartaigh, N. (2010) 'Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland' In: In Adrian Guelke (ed.) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [ARAN Link] [Details]

O Dochartaigh, Niall (2003) Increasing mobilization potential: Ulster Loyalists reach out to an American audience. ‘Online Political Activism: Mobilizing and Organizing in the Age of the Internet’. USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles. Conference Paper [Details]

O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) The Contact: understanding a communication 'pipe' between the British government and the IRA. Track Two to Peace? . Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. USC Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles: Conference Paper [Details]

O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) A multidisciplinary Approach to demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society. Coimbra Group Conference - Networking across Borders and Frontiers. University of Graz, Austria: Conference Paper [Details]

O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) A Botched State or Triumph of Terrorism?. The Northern Ireland Troubles Contesting History series. School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Nationalism and Organised Violence Conference, NUI Galway Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence in association with the Political Studies Association of Ireland specialist group on Peace and Conflict. Conference Paper [Details]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘ Outcomes of negotiated deradicalization in the Irish peace process’. European Consortium for Political Research general conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Conference Paper [Details]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Trusting the enemy: the development of a negotiating relationship between the British Government and the IRA ‘. PSAI annual conference, UCD, Dublin. Conference Paper [Details]

Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) Making Peace in Secret: Back-channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. University of Limerick Dept of Politics and Public Administration seminar. Invited papers [Details]